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By Hemant Mehta Filmmaker Micael Langer is working on a documentary exploring how tough it is to be an atheist in this world. That means looking at the stigma against us, as well as how atheists are responding to it all. His film is called Godless and you’ll want to watch this trailer straight through. Regular readers of this site will recognize a lot of the

By Herb Silverman In “The Last Taboo: Why America Needs Atheism,” published in the New Republic in 1996, Wendy Kaminer wrote, “Atheists generate about as much sympathy as pedophiles. But, while pedophilia may at least be characterized as a disease, atheism is a choice, a willful rejection of beliefs to which vast majorities of people cling.” I

Losing one's faith can be one of the most difficult and painful experiences of a person's life. For many, including myself, it felt like the death of a loved one. I lost a huge part of my identity when I lost my faith and, in some ways, those aspects o...

Last night, a teary-eyed Glenn Beck and his studio audience engaged in something of a therapy session as they struggled to come to grips with the fact that God's chosen candidate, Ted Cruz, has withdrawn from the Republican presidential race.
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Is the Donald for real? Seriously, does he think that he can actually win a general election as one of the more racist, xenophobic, chauvinistic, elitist blowhards the Republican Party’s ever created? Or is he merely, as some have offered, the most successful troll since…

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump announced yesterday that he would enforce a total ban on Muslims entering the United States after last week’s attack by Islamic extremists in San Bernardino, California which killed 14 people at a community service center.

1. If we truly had one creator speaking to prophets, it would do so consistently, not contradictory as thousands of different religions have proven. 2. Living by the means of man helping man, and realizing time on earth is not a practice run, creates an…

Alex Jones has put together a helpful list of all the places that supposedly produce “fake news,” unlike InfoWars, which is very reliable. Gun Owner of America is alarmed by reports that David Petraeus is under consideration for secretary of state: “David Petraeus is

On his most recent “Prophetic Perspectives On Current Events” program, televangelist Rick Joyner said that he was part of a committee tasked with coming up with an immigration reform plan for President-elect Donald Trump, which he said would not involve mass deportations and would

A year-end fundraising pitch from anti-gay and anti-choice activist Austin Ruse celebrates his group’s opposition to reproductive choice and LGBT equality at the global level. Ruse runs C-Fam (the Center for Family and Human Rights, formerly known as the Catholic Family and Human Rights

Religious Right activist Michael Brown appeared on Rick Joyner’s “Prophetic Perspectives On Current Events” program recently, where he declared that Donald Trump’s election was undoubtedly due to a movement by “the hand of God in a unique way.” “He is

Dena Sher
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Today, the Senate voted to adopt a final negotiated version of the National Defense Authorization Act. The House approved the same bill last week. Notably, the bill does not include the Russell Amendment, a sweeping provision that would have sanctioned

written by Jeffrey Tayler The first woman in a hijab to anchor a television news broadcast! To dance as a ballerina! To fence in the Olympics! To — cue for gasps at the sheer progressive splendor of the moment — pose in Playboy! Headlines proclaiming such

Rob Boston
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One of the most troubling aspects of a Donald Trump presidency is the stamp he might place on the federal courts.
Congress can pass a law, and the president can sign it, but if a federal court rules that the law violates the Constitution, it won’t

Rob Boston
Wall of Separation
One of the most troubling aspects of a Donald Trump presidency is the stamp he might place on the federal courts.
Congress can pass a law, and the president can sign it, but if a federal court rules that the law violates the Constitution, it won’t

Rob Boston
Wall of Separation
One of the most troubling aspects of a Donald Trump presidency is the stamp he might place on the federal courts.
Congress can pass a law, and the president can sign it, but if a federal court rules that the law violates the Constitution, it won’t

Take action: urge your MP to support legal recognition of humanist marriages Calls are growing on Government to give humanist weddings legal recognition in England and Wales as new findings suggest that humanist ceremonies are more popular than ever before. Almost 15 million people in

Almost 15 million people in Britain (30%) have attended a humanist ceremony and close to seven million (14%) want a humanist funeral for themselves when they die, suggesting that humanist ceremonies are more popular than ever before. These new findings from YouGov come as the British Humanist